Get ready for the launch of Michael Lewis's first podcast, where he takes listeners from student-loan call centers to the courts of Uzbekistan to the new trading hubs of Wall Street (in New Jersey). What happens when fairness can't be enforced?

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Rage at referees is all the rage in professional sports. Michael Lewis visits a replay center that’s trying to do the impossible: adjudicate fairness.

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The government protects us from some dangerous products, but not from others that, over time, ruin countless lives.

Michael has started a Go Fund Me campaign to help Katie finally be free of her student loan burden. If you would like to contribute, visit Katie's Go Fund Me.

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Everyone hates grammar and ethics cops. Until they need one.

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The authenticator ref absolves everyone of blame. And sometimes generates money out of thin air.

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What kind of person makes a neutral referee? It’s not the kind of person you think.

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Judges now want us to know they’re human. But maybe we’d be better off if we didn’t know.

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Where is a millisecond worth a million dollars? The New York Stock Exchange.

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